On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:47:54AM -0500, Jan Burger wrote:
> I'm really impressed with cURL and what it can do, but I'm struggling with this
> feature:
>
> -d, --data <data>
>
> If any of these options is used more than once on the same command line, the
> data pieces specified will be merged together with a separating &-symbol. Thus,
> using '-d name=daniel -d skill=lousy' would generate a post chunk that looks
> like 'name=daniel&skill=lousy'.
>
> I'm trying to send a simple SOAP message with 1 element, the contents of a text
> file, then I have two other files, header.txt and footer.txt (which is the SOAP
> envelope), but the &-symbol in between the files messes things up:
>
> curl --data @header.txt --data @OperationsData.txt --data @footer.txt "http://
> soapserver:8080/soap/Nomination/SendNominations?datasetkind=%22Company%22&
> datasetname=%22ExternalReceive%22" --libcurl debug.txt
>
> gives this back from the receiving end:
>
> XercesHandler.FatalError: line 1, column 308, message unterminated entity
> reference
>
> debug.txt has two offending &'s in CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS that I don't want. Any
> way around this without changing the source code or writing a script that
> concatenates the 3 files first?

If you're using bash, this should work:

curl --data @<(cat header.txt OperationsData.txt footer.txt) …

>>> Dan
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Received on 2015-11-20